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Introduction 3 Bonnie Gordon and Martha Feldman PART ONE Spectacle and Performance i. Making a Spectacle of Her(self): The Greek Courtesan and the Art of the Present 29 James Davidson 2. Cutting a Good Figure: The Fashions of Venetian Courtesans in the Illustrated Albums of Early Modern Travelers 52. Margaret F. Rosenthal 3. "Notes of Flesh" and the Courtesan's Song in Seventeenth-Century China 75 Judith T. Zeitlin PART TWO A Case Study: The Courtesan's Voice in Early Modern Italy Introduction 103 Martha Feldman 4. The Courtesan's Voice: Petrarchan Lovers, Pop Philosophy, and Oral Traditions 105 Martha Feldman 5. On Hearing the Courtesan in a Gift of Song: The Venetian Case of Gaspara Stampa 124 Dawn De Rycke 6. On Locating the Courtesan in Italian Lyric: Distance and the Madrigal Texts of Costanzo Festa 133 Justin Flosi 7. On Music Fit for a Courtesan: Representations of the Courtesan and Her Music in Sixteenth-Century Italy 144 Drew Edward Davies PART THREE Power, Gender, and the Body 8. Royalty's Courtesans and God's Mortal Wives: Keepers of Culture in Precolonial India 161 Doris M. Srinivasan 9. The Courtesan's Singing Body as Cultural Capital in Seventeenth-Century Italy 182 Bonnie Gordon o1. Defaming the Courtesan: Satire and Invective in Sixteenth-Century Italy 199 Courtney Quaintance Ii. The Masculine Arts of the Ancient Greek Courtesan: Male Fantasy or Female Self-representation? 2o9 Christopher A. Faraone PART FOUR Excursus: Geisha Dialogues 12. The City Geisha and Their Role in Modern Japan: Anomaly or Artistes? 223 Lesley Downer 13. In the Service of the Nation: Geisha and Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country 243 Miho Matsugu PART FIVE Fantasies of the Courtesan 14. Going to the Courtesans: Transit to the Pleasure District of Edo Japan 255 Timon Screech 15. Who's Afraid of Giulia Napolitana? Pleasure, Fear, and Imagining the Arts of the Renaissance Courtesan 280 Guido Ruggiero PART SIX Courtesans in the Postcolony 16. The Twentieth-Century "Disappearance" of the Gisaeng during the Rise of Korea's Modern Sex-and-Entertainment Industry 295 Joshua D. Pilzer 17. Female Agency and Patrilineal Constraints: Situating Courtesans in Twentieth-Century India 312 Regula Burckhardt Qureshi 18. Tawa'if, Tourism, and Tales: The Problematics of Twenty-First-Century Musical Patronage for North India's Courtesans 332 Amelia Maciszewski